Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-07-18
rfHE Is MY ROCK.

Ti8QJ.
"HE Is MY ROCK,
and there is no uurigh;eousness in me. :"
Come, Isaiah, have you anything to say
out OF your prophecies for these aged
people? ayes" says Isaiah, "dOwn to
old age l am with thee, and to hosry
hairs will | carry thee" Well, II the
Lord is going to carry you, you ought
not to worry much a50nt your failing
oversight and falling limbs. You get 8
little worried for fear some time you will
come to want, do you; Your children
and grandchildren sometimes speak 3
| little sharp al you because OF your all
mGnts. The Lord will not speak sharp
! Do yOu think you will come to wantI
Who do you tdink the Lord is? Are hig
grGnaries empty? VIII he feed the raven
and the rabbit, and the lion in the desert,
ana forget you? Why, natuEGlists
tell Us that the pGrpoiSe viii
not fOrsake its wounded and sick mate
And do you suppose the Lord OF HcayeD
has not IS much sympathy SO the lisa OF
the sea? But you say 81 am 50 near
worn out and am Of no use TO God any
more" | think the Lord knows whether
you are OF any more use or not; if you
were Of no more use He would have taken
you before this. DO you think God has
forgotten you because he has taken care
of you seventy or eighty years: He thinks
more CT you Today than lie ever did, be-
cause you think more of Him. May the
God Of Abraham, ana Isaac, and Jacob,
and Paul the aged, be your God forever
But | gather all the promises to-day in
group, and | ask the shepherds to drive
their h5c1s Of lambs and sheep up to the
sparkling supply. "Behold! happy is the
man whom God cOrrecteth." Though
he cause grief, yet will lie have compass
sion" "M2ny are the affections OF the
righteous, but the Lord delilereth him
out of them all" "Weeping may endure
for 9 night, but Joy cometh in the morn
ing" l am determined this morning tbat
no one shall 90 out Of this house
UNCoMFORTED.
YoDder is a tinid and shrinking soul who
seems 20 hide away from the ConsClstions
an Uttering, a. a child with g sore hand
hides away from the phys ci9n lest be
touch the wound too roughly, and the
mother has to 90 snd compel the little
patient to come out and see the physician.
So | come TO your timid and shrinking
soul to-day, and compel you TO come out
in the presence Of the Divine Physician.
lie will not hurt you. lie has been heal
ing wounds for many years, and He will
give you gentle and omnipCtent mediCa
ment. But people, when they have
trouble, 90 elsewhere rather than TO
God. DtQuincy took opium TO get
rid of his troubles. Charles Lamb
took to punch. Theodore Hook took to
someting stronger. Edwin Forrest took
to theatrical dissipation, and men have
run gil around the earth, hoping in the
quick transit to get away from their mis-
fortunes. II has been dead failure.
There is only one we'll that can slake the
thirst of an afflicted spirit, and that IS the
deep and ineXiSustible well Of the Cos.
pei.
But, some one says IN the audience:
notwithstanding all you have said this
morning, | find no alleviatlon for my
troubles" Well, am not through yet.
| have left the most potent consideration
for the last. l am going TO soOthe you
with the thoughts Of heaven. However
talkstiye we may be, there will come g
time when the stCutest snd most em
phstic interrogation will evoke from US
10 answer. As soon Is we have closed
our lips for the haal silence, no power or
earth can break that taciturnity. But
where, Q Christian, will be
your spirit? In scene of in
finite gladnsss. The spring morning
of heaven ] waving its blossoms in the
bright air. Victors fresh from battle
showing their scars. The rain of earthly
sorrow struck through with the rainbow
of eternal Joy. In one group God and
angels and Tedeemed-Paul ard Silas,
Lstimer and Ridley, Isaiah and Jeremiah,
Payscn and John hilton, Gabriel snd
Michael the archsngel Long line of
choristers reaching across the hills. Seas
of Joy dsshing to the white beach. Con-
querors marching from gate to gate.
You among them.
Oh, what great flock OF sheep God
will gather around the celestial well. No